Magnus Carlsen is Acquitted of Autism

Some covet the GM title and fall into a realous jage nearing GM norms. Though people have acquitted world number one chess GM Magnus Carlsen of being autistic, chess GMs may have implicit autism and need corrective glasses. Some might speculate they are merely idiot savants while others could throw in a manic depressive or bipolar diagnosis as the games bring tremendous endorphin flows winning and sometimes the agony of defeat when a single opfor pawn converts to a Queen promoted suddenly, without warning as the player is consumed- some would say obsessed, with an attack of his or her own they believed was about to conquer the chess world in the glory of victory.

None dare call it megalomania though the rook fetish of forward and sideways movement is a dark tower of fantasy subliminally occupying the subconscious mind of a GM living in effect, in a twilight zone beyond space and time. I believe California has made conversion therapy of chess GMs to meaningful non-addictive activity illegal.

The majarity of first world people technically fall at some point of their lives into a psychological category of some sort worth headlines if they rise high enough. Table salt may be the cure (though it elevates blood pressure and may be indirectly linked to acrophobia, agoraphobia, aquaphobia, arachnophobia and more).

Long, long ago in Germany

I visited Germany long ago and found some Germans that didn’t speak English- that made it tough. I traveled about and had to survive on pastry communicating with the natives saying things like bitte Bitte und danke and Wie geht's, before pointing at things with creamed cheese.

I never got a chance to work in Husserl’s phrase-title logische untersuchungen in a bakery though I was looking for the opportunity.

British Trash Talk And Disrespect Pres Trump- No Apology Expected

Foreign enemies of the U.S.A. try to get whatever leverage they can. It will always be that way. Some people hate the first place team in their division and inter-league rivals. Britain chose to moon President Trump so far as they could during an official visit recently.

The U.S. government could stop issuing visas to Brits if the Congress wasn’t so full of appeasers. My father fought four years in the second world war- it’s obligatory to say that. The wolf-packs likely sought to sink his ship too the years off North Africa. Oh well.

The Second world war would not have happened if the USA hadn’t entered the First and decided the conflict to the advantage of Britain without fighting to the point of the unconditional surrender of Germany. I don’t believe the German government of Hindenburg was that bad. Their basic problem was their hatred of Russia and Orthodox Christians of Serbia.

Hindenburg bragged that he had never read a book. German foreign policy showed that.

I hope Pres Trump adds British fish and chips to the tariff list as well as Canadian maple syrup until they apologize. I suppose the leftist Nobel Institute won't give President Trump the Peace Prize this year or next even if Kim Jong Un buys a box seat at Yankee Stadium and lets Apple build assembly plants in Pyongyang after Korean reunification.

Paradigm of the Crowd-Sourced Superpower

Becoming a super-power of a nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and endowed with their Creator with certain inalienable rights for the pursuit of happiness- as it is written- would be better for mankind if it was innovative and inventive in restoring capitalism to practical egalitarianism within an environmental economic criterion.

Conventional super-power status for a nation is a measure of military power and economic productivity. Unfortunately each of those categories as traditionally structured have a deleterious effect upon the sustainability of the planetary ecosphere. A new super-power with a completely new economic mode of being and production integrated implicitly within a reformed capitalism that rewards ecospherically beneficial enterprise would be a crowd-sourced and supported super-power populism such as should be at the heart of democracy.

Surprisingly the next super-power could be any of the majority of the world’s nations. The clever trick to overcome the challenge of envisioning and actualizing a practical way of restructuring capitalism toward egalitarianism and ecospheric synergy is what is as difficult, or really more so, than climbing Mt Everest without oxygen or ropes.

About Withdrawing All U.S. Forces from Europe

The U.S.A. would love to have no troops stationed in Europe. Unfortunately Europeans don’t trust themselves enough to realistically let that happen. If one looks at European history it is easy to understand why.

Europe has started every world war. Without American intervention in Serbia its hard to say where that would have gone. Some would like to let Europe and its issues burn themselves out instead of intervening in the future.

Basing U.S. forces in Europe is costly. If the United States were to get them all out of Europe Germany might feel free to re-arm itself as best it can and just kick any malcontents into the gutter. ..some would think of opening concentration camps with free train rides for the recently homeless. The United States could watch. It would be like reality T.V. or almost as good.

Europeans are such nice people though that they would never think of increasing their nuclear weapons infrastructure. They could sign some kind of mutual love agreement like Hitler did with Stalin and that would further allow butterflies to fly free in the skies while flowers are planted along autobahns.

Russia might be a cheaper place for Americans to base troops in anyway besides being closer to potential Asian conflicts. Maybe some sort of security arrangement could be made with Russia if Americans are booted out of Europe. Then, if there was a need someday to return to Europe U.S. troops wouldn’t have to cross the Atlantic again.

Russia is an entirely manufactured threat to the United States. Europe has invaded Russia numerous while Russia just conquered the Nazis from the eastern approach. The Austria-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia 28 July 1914. The Balkan League including Serbia and Greece wanted to rid the region of Ottoman Empire occupiers of Europe. Germany would have none of that, and Russians supported Christian Orthodox Serbs; sound familiar?

August 1 1914 Germany declared war on Russia.

Suvorov did general around Switzerland back in the time of the Napoleonic Wars of course, yet Napoleon found it convenient to busy himself in Egypt in those days. With a strong German position in the EU today it is natural that the EU finds Russia a problem. Large numbers of recent Muslim immigrants to the EU add to the traditional anti-Russian position of the EU for Russian support of Christian orthodoxy instead of state-run religion such as prevails in Germany.

Russia sold Alaska to the United States to dampen British expansion ambitions a little. The only conflict with Russia the United States has had was the cold war and that ideological contest is over. Europe seems to be the source of ideological conflict with the U.S.A. these days more so than Russia.

Russia with such a small population hasn’t visions of global conquest. They want to keep historical Russia together such as it was before German annexation of Ukraine at Brest-Litovsk. They seek security from Western attack as well as Eastern and Southern attack in addition to hoping not to have nuclear war with the United States, China, or to be struck by a Muslim bomb.

Germany only pays 20% of the cost of U.S. bases. The U.S.A. pays billions and billions for maintaining bases, training troops and building equipment to defrappe war in Europe. The Rand Corporation reported that Germany pays 1 billion dollars annually for bases. The European Deterrence Initiative alone for the U.S.A. is 4.7 billion dollars in 2018. The U.S. defense budget request for 2018 is nearly 700 billion dollars. A huge part of that goes toward Europe related defense spending.

About rearming; Today Germany pays nearly 2% of its economy on defense spending. Nazi Germany in 1938 spent 17% and in 1939 23%. The numbers continued to rise during the war of course.

I am very happy not to have war. My father served in the U.S. Navy four years during the second world war off North Africa. Germany was a bit of a problem back then and caused a few U.S. casualties. I visited Berlin in 1987 and saw the ‘armies waiting to tear one another apart’…the Soviet equipment seemed rusty. My hope as an army reservist was for peace and prosperity yet one trained for war.

The Phenomenon of Super-Powerhood Conferred on the the U.S.A.

Why the U.S.A. is a super-power is a good question. It may be interpreted in several ways. Hollywood likes superlatives as does Madison Avenue. Super-sizing French fries was big for some time. It is a prestigious thing for some to be super. One has an ego, then one has a super-ego.

Economic and military power combined put the United States in a class of its own. Yet it is how one regards economic and military power that gives an amorphous character to the security or stability of super-power-hood. Weapons of mass destruction have numerous forms and methods of delivery. The world has become a small place in regard to modern transportation and the volatility of allocation of WMD vectors globally. Borders and distance no longer confer the natural security that they once did. Neither are economies of nations secure from disruptions form anomalous vectors.

The United States had an insular status free from European military invasions for some time. Natural oceanic borders were helpful. after the end of the Second World War the nations that were nuclear weapons super-powers were all on the allied side of victors over the Axis powers. After the end of the Soviet Union the economy of Russia was not able to attain the kind of growth needed to rival Japan or China as a challenger to world leadership. The Chinese economy is about equal to that of the United States in size, yet they have just 300 plus nuclear weapons versus 6300 of Russia and 6000 of the U.S.A. so they are not considered a super-power in combined economic and nuclear accounting. Neither have they the great military budget expense of the United States for conventional weapons. It should be recalled that larges numbers of nuclear weapons help assure being a target rather than to increase security in some ways.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-world-s-top-economy-the-us-vs-china-in-five-charts/

One might like a super-power to be necessarily beneficial to all nations and in some respects the United States tries to achieve that at least indirectly through the vehicle of capitalism and free markets that improve the lifestyles of all people. Modern capitalism unfortunately has numerous unreformed weaknesses in performance and unintended down-sides in development that tend to be uncorrected with philosophical and analytical laziness or even rationalization primarily accountable for that.

One of the implicit weaknesses of a super-power is its inability to change and upgrade its economic and social infrastructure because of the inertia of the establishment and its resistance to change and adapt successfully to new challenges. The historian Arnold Toynbee noted that challenge and response of civilizations as a critical element for their rise and fall with the decline being a failure to adapt as well as over-expansion of commercial or military success into a Universal phase (like a star nova before collapse).

History does not always repeat the past. So the United States may find a way to evolve an ecologically economic reform of capitalism limiting over-concentration of wealth and transform the social and environmental structure of the planet through positive leadership emulated. Super-power status is however like a time of the day where the sun shines brightly through broken clouds. The historical day moves on though.

If the U.S. Reforms N.A.T.O. by Leaving It

Germany is the N.A.T.O. super-power in the absence of the U.S.A. German power could beat the rest of N.A.T.O. combined. If the U.S. wasn’t in N.A.T.O. maybe Germany would transform it into the 4th Reich. Alternatively they could sign up Russia to become the new Soviet Europe or The Europus Corporate Entity led by continental 1%’ers.

If the United States wanted to reform N.A.T.O. and leave it the parameter ought to be that forming large multi-national defense organizations alternatively known as practical, aggressive war structures for explicit expansion are illegal and would be met by ad hoc war coalitions of willing attackers in anticipatory defense.

Whale Steaks and Blubber Aren't For Sale in the U.S.A.

Only very few, and primitive people, want to eat whales and whale blubber. Knowing that they are eating a semi-sentient species with the largest brains on Earth ruins the taste for modern people. They would rather eat mint-flavored high-protein soy bean applets and cotlets energy snacks with B complex fortification.

Cannibalism persisted in the world until recent times in primitive locales. Whale eaters are like that. So whale steaks and blubber can’t be bought in the U.S.A. except possibly on the black market in Western Alaska, if it exists.

If the Soviet Red Army had Conquered West Berlin in 1989

The former Soviet Union started withdrawing its forces from East Germany in December 1988. I believe it was a quarter of a million soldiers that were pulled back. So if they had reversed course in 1989 and invaded West Berlin that would have caused fuel shortages in the Soviet Union for civil consumers of gasoline as all of the Soviet Army trucks would have required fuel.

Pink Floyd’s concert at the former Berlin Wall probably wouldn’t have happened. Instead, Metallica would have been commissioned to perform at the battle-line from the trench-works dug around Berlin to contain Soviet expansionism. A-10 Warthogs would have swirled menacingly around Berlin while vast right-wing fireworks displays followed by oil-based fog from machines would have confused Soviet Red Army forces.

If there were vast concentrations of explosives buried beneath Berlin in case of invasion they would have been detonated creating in effect, a vast sinkhole that eventually would have filled with rainwater and become a fishing spot of note.

Very likely static electric discharges across the sky would have followed a Soviet Red Army invasion of West Berlin. Tremendous Van De Graff field generators with stealth technology and fueled with synthetic cornohal would have been moved under cover of darkness near Berlin and cast crackling power lines over the city before it became a sinkhole. Then, with some softening up, the Meissner field would have taken effect and lifted the city to move it thirty miles west.

The psyops team having completely confused the opposition force would have allowed the decoy, holographic Berlin to remain when the real city moved west. It would have been the fake city of West Berlin that actually followed the sinkhole into the oblivion captured in the term; not a bite all day.

The Economic Challenge to the U.S.A.

Reforming capitalism; an upgrade in theory from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations paradigm published in 1776, is long over-due. It should attack the over-concentration of wealth and power once more as Adam Smith’s paradigm did regarding the monopoly on free trade de facto by the aristocracy. Too much concentrated wealth and power gives de facto monopoly of trade and the channels of capital flow to the 1% aristocrats of the present era.

While reforming capital theory and its application in the world it would be a good idea to integrate the new paradigm with an implicit ecological economic structure that advances economic enterprises that are synergetic with recovery of the planet’s ecospheric health.

Did Nikita Khrushchev Martinet the 1960 Presidential Election?

Election voter tampering probably goes on quite a bit in the world. While 12 Russians indicted by the Mueller team for trying to tamper with the 2016 Presidential election may seem insignificant since they didn't influence much. It does remind Americans that the world is full of election tamperers that should face justice.

It may not be too late to investigate the 1960 Presidential election and overturn the results. It is said that Chicago Mayor Dailey tampered with votes in effect throwing the decisive Illinois vote to John F. Kennedy. If Richard M. Nixon was the true winner it is time to correct that and make him so posthumously.

Was Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev a grand master martinet pulling the strings of American puppets gullible enough to vote for the Democrat candidate? Were Soviet GRU agents infiltrating Madison Avenue bewitching consumers with desires of decadence? Could My Favorite Martian and Mr. Ed have been deep covert extreme leftist communist plants?

Pres Trump, Like Churchill, Is Candid in Brit Politics

President Trump is providing a lesson to British politicians in candor and plain truth about the Brexit issue this week. They can use it unable as they are to get beyond "polishing the turd" on exit tactic planning.

President Trump gifted Brit PM Theresa May with a plain public line about the U.S. response to her wishy-washy half-backed plan to remain in the EU though not of it and thinking she could also have the U.S. free trade special relationship cake and eat it too.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/13/mps-voice-outrage-at-repulsive-donald-trump-broadside-against-theresa-may

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/12/trump-slams-may-over-very-unfortunate-brexit-plan-says-would-have-done-it-much-differently.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-u-k-visit-sparked-protests-because-he-s-ncna891061

President Trump's analysis of the prevailing Brexit plan that Brit foreign minister Boris Johnson resigned over in effect kicked the turd into the gutter.

British politicians are comfortable with byzantine bureaucratic treachery rather than plain talk. U.S. politicians are just indolent, backward thinking and incomprehending about reform parameters necessary to renormalize economic policy with ecospheric and security criteria. On both sides of the Atlantic they just want to have a freezer full of cash without accountability.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/396732-artist-carves-russian-f-trump-into-crop-circle-ahead-of-uk-visit  British artful hatred of American democracy and its executive leadership

Ought it Not Be a Hate Crime to Hate Lima Beans?

A man charged with a federal hate crime for harassing a women wearing a Puerto Rico shirt shows the idiocy of the federal hate crimes law. If the man was perpetrating some sort of crime of assault then he should have been charged with that- yet federal hate crimes for being a partisan against a symbol? If he had harassed someone from Vermont that wouldn't have been a hate crime?  

The man harassing the women  in the video is probably perping a misdemeanor of some sort and even disorderly conduct. People harass people a lot. I was harassed by several hispanics from Chicago to Ashville N.C. riding a bus. In England while sitting in a rural restaurant a pair of guys started harassing me and wouldn't stop until I took out a sharp lock blade knife to clean the dirt under my fingernails. People use words much to harass strangers for whatever reason. It's hateful but is that a federal felony crime? Criminal offenses should be crimes if perped against anyone regardless of race, national or state origin, religion or personal sexual behavior (that isn't already a crime). If one wants to hate Boston for trading dumping Babe Ruth like a turd, can't they without looking over their shoulder for the G-men?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-seen-video-harassing-woman-puerto-rico-shirt-charged-hate-n891051

Laws are supposed to be objective and apply to all people that perp some objective activity. Hate crimes fails that standard royally because politics decides which symbols are protected. A complete list of protected symbols needs to be published on the Internet and updated regularly so people can hate a chance to experimentally hate them and argue about the hate-worthiness of federally protected symbols. Maybe the EPA and Justice could get that done together.

Who believes all those symbol haters are very bright? People have been killed for wearing a T-Shirt with some symbol of an opposing football team like the 49ers or Raiders in the wrong part of town.  Have Democrats been charged for hating government officials patronizing their restaurants as symbols of President Trump? If one wears a T-Shirt with a Che Guevara beret'd face at some sort of veteran's biker rally that might be problematically dangerous.  Does the Democrat Party hate the confederate flag?


If one wears an Uncle Sam shirt and is white in some parts of America that could be dangerous. People react to symbols really stupidly. Loyalists attack and hate on opposition symbols; that is just the way it is. Even overseas soccer fans have hated and clashed in hatred of sports rivals. Hate is a way of life unfortunately.

And people are trained to be passionate. A former President famously hated  brussel sprouts. Some youth have expressed hatred of lima beans. Advertising and video programming present strong emotion as a virtue. Performers of songs need to seem passionate and persuasive. Advertisers want people to emotionally react to symbols and labels, products and items that can be purchased as emotionally as possible so they would love to buy it. Who make ugly but efficient cars? Cars are as attractive as possible and used to be sold with attractive women sensuously caressing the car as the object of desire.

So Americans should be trained not to be too emotional if they want to avoid the paradigm of hate crimes written in to federal law. One can like one's home town sports team and mildly dislike the traditional rivals just a little bit. Hating them is out of the question though. I am sure at least the Democrat Party has eliminated hate of any sort of symbols from their collective behavior patternology (some hate words with the ology ending).

Sexual Violence at Okinawa Marine Bases; The Nominal Criterion

Sexual violence in the military is not unique to the eleven U.S. Marine bases on Okinawa. It also occurs in the military generally among American military personnel.

Some persons have enlisted in the Marines to escape civil crimes. I recall one high school girl who was murdered in Alaska by two fellows who enlisted in the Marines subsequently yet were tracked down and apprehended by the state police.

In just two years- 2015 to 2017, 65 Marines at Okinawa bases were jailed at courts-martial for sexual offenses. The warrior mentality may not be at the top of the moral food chain, although original sin corrupts everyone from the fellatio of a U.S. President by a student intern to the Marine at Okinawa convicted of bestiality.

War such as Marines are thrown in to does not occupationally attract the best and brightest kind of people. Dull, savage and loyal killers aren’t usually the kinder gentler souls writing calligraphy although there are some martial arts movies to that effect.

The morality of the Japanese occupation Army in the Philippines was not renowned for excellence. Even so, one would like impeccable warriors that are better than Lancelot at moral values; warrior-priests that would not step upon an ant unless ordered, who would then execute the order without trouble.

U.S. Marine Corps Sexual Violence on Okinawa

The nominal criterion is that there is a certain percentage of individuals that will perpetrate crimes. There may be specific training remedies and punishment configurations that would reduce the number of incidents. Yet the United States has an ineffective prison convict corrections philosophy domestically. It may not be reasonable to expect that the military would have a better system.

Wikipedia has an article on the 1995 case where three marines abducted and raped a 12 year old girl from Okinawa…
“The trial concluded in March 1996. Prosecutors had asked for the maximum sentences for the men, 10 years each. The judge sentenced Gill and Harp to seven years' imprisonment; Ledet received six and a half years. Their families also paid "reparation money" to the family of the victim, a common practice in Japan.
The three men served prison terms in Japanese prisons and were released in 2003 and then given other than honorable discharge from the military. After release, Rodrico Harp decried prison conditions in Japan and said that the electronics assembly prison labor he was forced to do amounted to slave labor.

Ledet, who had claimed he did not rape the girl, died in 2006 in an apparent murder–suicide in the United States. He was found in the third-floor apartment of Lauren Cooper, a junior Kennesaw State University student and acquaintance whom he had apparently sexually assaulted and then murdered, by strangulation. He then took his own life by using a knife to slice open his veins at the elbows.” -1995 Okinawa rape incident - Wikipedia

An Independent Can Win in 2020

An independent could win the Presidency. Donald Trump was as close to being an independent as one is likely to get though.

The Democrat Party has evolved since the Clintons of 1992 to a moribund condition. An independent that could disentangle ecospheric issues from moral issues such that ecosphere reform is without immorality preconditions (how does homosexuality, recreational drugs or abortion actually have any relevance to global warming?) could get some votes from people somewhat disgusted with matters of immorality the Supreme Court decides eventually anyway.

An independent would probably need to be a billionaire or someone with tremendous resources able to buy advertising without party contributions and with the media likely against them. If the candidate isn’t actually very different politically from the party candidates whats the point though?

Probably an independent candidate would have a position equivalent to an independent primary party that merges to take over the mainstream party to run as the party candidate. President Trump worked something like that. So a candidate with numerous independent ideas could present them and try to get enough support to get delegates for the national convention and the nomination eventually.

Usually regular candidates try to present a formula for a platform appealing to enough voters to get a nomination instead of leading with new and independent ideas that attract enough voters that recognize the reason and utility of the ideas.

A candidate that has ideas about reforming capitalism and environmental economics, securing the borders, renewing the environment and eliminating poverty could draw voters from all parties. The trouble is that the people that run require tons of money just to start.

There is also the problem of brownie point qualifications. Candidates need to have a PhD in Environmental economics, be as svelte as a decathalete, rugged as Chuck Norris and have graduated from West Point with a Silver Star from Thermopylae, the Croix de Guerre with clusters and be a Mister Rogers Bible instructor who gives blood twice a week while serving food to the homeless at a leprosarium.

In Answer to the Question; 'What if Electrons Were Not Added to or Subtracted from Atoms'

It’s a bit of a trick question I think. Every atom would need to remain as it is without change within each atom everywhere in the Universe (s). Change even such as radiation and photons travelling about would change things. Motion might need to stop too for electrons to never leave atoms, yet electrons are in motion. Force in general is the motion of energy in a way.

At absolute zero energy is quite minimal. One scientist coupled an electron to a Bose-Einstein condensate and it had a long lifetime.
  Coupling a single electron to a Bose–Einstein condensate

Neutrinos without charge exist and that makes one wonder if they aren’t implicitly balanced charges without excess. An electron is a lepton and neutrinos are called electron neutrinos. If atoms were made with orbiting neutrinos it would be a different Universe. Electrons have negative charge. The nucleus has a positive charge. What if gravity instead has a micro-warp effect that make electrons and nuclei seem to be charged when instead they aren’t?

Electron neutrino - Wikipedia

Someone wrote that positrons have a positive charge because of their quarks-even so at the very heart of it gravity could be the source of micro-warping space.

Image by Geek3 - Own work; created with hydrogen-cloud in PythonThis PNG graphic was created with Python., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69032672

It is amazing to think that if space were rightly shaped energy would flow and settle in to it like water in a dimpled tray. Physicists found that electrons have a life-span that is at least five quintillion times the age of the Universe. Maybe then atoms should be regarded as temporary and electrons permanent.

Electron "Lifespan" is at Least 5 Quintillion Times the Age of the Universe

Heat Waves and Solar Heat Absorbing Asphalt

Is walking on a noonday in July asphalt street in Phoenix any less challenging that walking over hot coals in Honolulu? Asphalt streets absorb sunshine; a huge amount of it to release the heat during the day and the night creating micro-climates and global warming synergy. It would be good to make roads white to increase reflectivity and the national albedo, yet better to make it white and solar voltaic or electron capturing to produce electricity for electric cars.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/11/heatwave-climate-change-americans-survey

People usually really don't understand how many square miles of asphalt exist in the nation or the total capture of extra solar heat in comparison to natural earth and plants on the same places.

The June 2018 temperature average was the third highest in U.S. history a bit more than 3 degrees above average. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-201806

If one considers just Arizona's addition to national average temperature with asphalt roads, parking lots and fossil fuel exhaust going up into the atmosphere and wind flowing east to warm up the already warm Gulf Coast with its already warmed Gulf of Mexico waters its easy to understand the 3 degree higher temperature.

There are, according to the national asphalt association, more than 2.7 million miles of asphalt roads in the U.S.A. In fact 94% of roads are paved with asphalt. That is a good way to heat up the night. Asphalt is partly at fault for global warming.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122017/big-oil-heartland-climate-science-misinformation-campaign-koch-api-trump-infographic

A Present Logic of Nuclear Disarmament

There are more than 14,000 nuclear weapons in the world. The United States has a little more than 6000. Actually Russia has more.

Games theorists and arms negotiators would say that unilateral disarmament is taken as a sign of weakness that invites attack. With such an adverse world social environment the United States would be remiss in looking after self-defense to unilaterally disarm.
The Tsar bomb of the Soviet Union- the world’s largest that was exploded at Novaya Zemlya, it is said, if exploded at the right depth of the Marianas trench would destroy the world causing gross tsunami and tectonic plate disturbances, earthquakes etc. Plainly nuclear weapons are a threat to humanity.

It wasn’t the United States that began the first or second world wars. The U.S.A. and it’s allies finished it. The nuclear big three are those nations that fought against the axis powers. Humanity has generally not shown a level of maturity that would foster such trust that any super-power would disarm as Pres. Ronald Reagan sought to do. Surprisingly for some, President Reagan’s goal was complete nuclear disarmament. Unfortunately in the aftermath of the Cold War, and after the substantial reductions in nuclear arms, President Clinton levered Boris Yeltsin to give up the Ukraine and Crimea that had historically been integral parts of Russia, and that caused lasting enmity. The west has been hostile to Russia for some time, and Europe is hardly a trustworthy partner for Russians that have suffered European invasions repeatedly in history with the loss of tens of millions to wars.

There are other weapons of mass destruction besides nuclear that are challenges to world survival today that need also be addressed. Persistent solid nerve agents such as Novichok recently used in England are grave threats to population centers. Biological weapons are radically dangerous with all the genetic recombination technology, and the list goes on.
Because economic reform as well as an update of the theory of capitalism have not been synced with ecospheric renewal the implicit instability of geopolitics render complete disarmament improbable. Without faith in Jesus Christ the problem of original sin prevails.

Against Stockfish, Disappear the FIsh's Knights

I started learning chess in 2012. I noticed that knights are the most important pieces that need to be eliminated when a novice is playing someone much higher ranked. Stockfish the chess engine and candidate masters use them to make a mockery of the novice. Bishops fundamentally are assassins used to kill the knights.

That being said, it is fun to control the diagonals with bishops and even checkmate such as So did vs. Kramnik in a famous game. Vlad studied the board 15, 20 minutes before resigning.

In blitz chess tournaments players rated 500 points better just know the algorithms for openings too well and hop the d__mn knights around eventually killing off one’s nice calculated position for mating with bishops.

If playing Stockfish the game will last longer if you take fish’s knights off the board.

If one is playing against an opponent rated two or three hundred points higher, its practical. Usually I like to keep my bishops too. The trouble is that novices can’t calculate knight movements easily-especially in blitz time control. It is easier to calculate pawn, bishop and rook, movements for novices. Against Stockfish or a player hundreds of points better one should take away that supremacy and force them to an endgame that’s unbalanced. Against some players it isn't necessary to chop the knights right away. Timing matters; if the player seems early to be a hyper active knight player then chop them. Alternatively if he leaves the knights on that back rank let the sleeping dogs lie.

U.S. Likely to Keep Troops Based in Afghanistan Permanently

More than seventy years after the end of the war with Japan the United States still has 39,000 troops stationed there. In Germany, 3rd Reichland, the United States still has 35,000. In Afghanistan, seventeen years after 9-11, the United States has fewer than 10,000- and it is still a hotbed of terror activity and coordination. The United States cannot afford to once again dump Afghanistan to the care of militant lunatic warlords.

Actually Afghanistan is centrally located and a good position for a rapid response force to Asian troubles that could arise. So long as the government of Afghanistan wants a U.S. troop presence some should remain.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-11/three-reasons-for-trump-to-end-the-afghanistan-forever-war

It would be good to cut down on global troop deployments obviously in order to save money. There are just 200,000 U.S. military forces based abroad presently and that number isn't too high if it helps keep the peace.

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-military-personnel-deployments-country/

What about saving money in Europe with increased N.A.T.O. national spending beside American? The President was right about that.

Germany and Poland worry about Russia. Demagoguery about Vladimir Putin and his 'aggression' for retaking parts of Russia lost to Bill Clinton by Boris Yeltsin is common. Russia isn't going to roll troops into Baltic nation as if it were Czechoslovakia in 1968 or even launch a Blitzkrieg. Basically its bullwhip. With the slightest effort the United States could be on very good terms with Russia and even consider a free trade deal along with free expression and travel reciprocally. Reagan might have spoke about constructive engagement with Russia and helped Russians learn to become more liberal and drink vodka that's iced. The likeliest prospect for war with Russia would be if a NATO nation repeated Hitler's excuse for invading Poland with a BS premise, with Russia being the target instead of Poland.

By Graham Robson-Parker - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50055652

Germany rarely sends troops to fight overseas with N.A.T.O. because of the NAZI heritage and it is convenient to get NATO protection. Germany does have maybe the best troops carrier with automatic weapons, yet it costs 12 million dollars and Russia's are almost as good as though of Turkey that cost just a couple million. In any case Germany won't use their armor anyplace unless Russia attacks... it must be a joke to envision Germany sending some of those 12 million dollar armored personnel carriers to Afghanistan.

Poland worries to much about Russia- wasn't it the Germans that invaded Poland, while the Soviets liberated it? Poles do contribute to NATO missions well enough. Even so NATO HQ should be moved to England with a dual HQ in Poland and the Tusk of NATO should be replaced by some Polish fellow so they will feel better. Maybe Poland would like Germany to send some of the 12 million dollar Boxer troops carriers to patrol their frontier to race Russian troops carriers on Saturdays?